thank. you just try and see i guess that reading crowd's angry at islamic president mohamed morsi has granted himself sweeping new powers. israel and hamas observers shaky cease fire despite trading accusations of violations of several riots and deadly border shootings. and the e.u. is truly in your budget is still up in the air as leaders fail to agree on how much they want to be spending. twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is our team the president of egypt's decree granting in a sweeping new policy has divided the country as clashes continue between his

backers and opponents the opposition started a sit in put in protest in tahrir square pledging to flight what it calls mohamed morsi is a power grab this morning security forces again fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters rallying against the president in the capital cairo the decree spot to mass protests across egypt on friday and once said to be the worst of violence or since a slum occluded took off its cairo based journalist bel truth has to details. what i really think is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop protests in paris where you see a lot to tear gas from protesters throwing rocks down on protesters from a couple of buildings we've also seen molotov being thrown back and forth at the same time we've had demonstrations at the presidential palace in support of the president and also across the country we've seen present a. and the president protesters clashing in from turkey brother

headquarters so there's been quite a lot happening is actually in a strange way united the opposition forces who've been quite divided recently there was mass uproar when the president announced his constitutional declaration which essentially awarded him powers over the judiciary it also said that his decree and his declarations would be an appealable and this is something that's led commentators to call him the new pharaoh and to call the document in essence a coup so what we're seeing here is massive criticism of the president and actually quite a lot of fear that he's really becoming a new tactic dictator because he actually has right now more power as the mubarak ever did the president does have a very large support base here was the hails from the muslim brotherhood which is a very organized organization and very able to get the protesters the members to the streets which is why we saw thousands in front of the presidential office in

support of the president so really whether the oppositional forces can convince the people that that the president morsi is doing is wrong is to be seen. egypt's president has defended the new decree and granting him substantial powers morsi told his supporters he was leading the country on a pause to freedom and democracy but journalist asked met farty believes a military rule in egypt has simply been replaced by another kind of dictatorship. what have mohammad morsi done mubarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group they have control over their members and their supporters it is very simple in a country with more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion gyptian is are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style regime of hosni mubarak into the religious fascist

regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians and they have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in their revolution have been achieved this state of the egyptian of qana me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid at the here and to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied and not to turn it from the military to the religious fascism. strong words there from journalist asked him if he was talking to us earlier from new york. for a little ceasefire between hamas and israel remains intact and has now entered its

third day that's despite accusations from both sides said there have been violations off the truce with several riots and shootings and near the border one man was killed in one thousand nine hundred agents injured when israeli soldiers opened fire at palestinians who entered a no go zone at the border israeli defense forces said around three hundred people from gaza approached the security fence at different points on friday and warning shots had to be fired polls show about half of israel's i think of the government should have pushed forward with the offensive prime minister netanyahu hailed it as successful and meeting the target of weakening some us a political analyst in gaza . says it's a muscle which has scored a victory so far. really so i think netanyahu and his government have lost then or i would pretty much put them in the category of the short term losers

in this. just the whole thing sure clearly how israel has no long term strategy in dealing with the power of the people are being guarded. by clinging so. hard that it's cool to resist and of course the. bridging on. how to learn to be honest with you just before the towers were. popular you were pretty much at one going and now coming back again to the scene. and preventing. a ground invasion. pretty much. at least that's what the public you know those things. here leaders who have been best linger over their common budgets in brussels for two days have failed to reach any decision we can members who wanted to hold subsidies and support programs

while large contributors to e.u. coffers urged belt tightening in line with the stereotype home even members will have to work harder next year to come to an agreement if they don't want to fall back on more costly and or budgets but robert oulds of the director of britain's largest euro skeptic think tank says countries need to complete control of their financial affairs to prosper. if countries have the votes to manage their own economies as they see fit then we wouldn't have this awful austerity that we're seeing we would have had these unsustainable booms which happened in southern europe and arland and of course we wouldn't have this enormous bust which is creating a massive unemployment if their countries had their own rights to manage their own affairs and set their own legislation to their own interest rates and many german economies as they see fit without having to hand over billions each year to brussels as britain does would be generally a lot better off really the european union we're seeing is reached the limits of

its it levels of integration there are moves to expand more powers to the you to have more. control over national member states budgets even to have its own sources of income it's only you taxes that of course he's pushing it too far it's gone far too far in the wrong direction which is centralization and it powers were turned i think the atmosphere in europe would be a lot better off course in terms of the britain's own deficit and the debts that the u.k. has it is a small amount that the european union's asking for because the european union has already taken so much power people are just loathe to accept a situation where they're going to get any more than money. but some regions are see europe's financial troubles as a reason to take a step away from the indebted countries spanish cut the lawn yet set to vote for its local government with separate as parties are to take the lead that's ahead for you after the shop break.

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free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video dog r.t. dot com. you watching our ticker to have you with us while you're up struggles to find a common way forward to some regions are looking for ways to go it alone in spanish catalonia people are set to go to the polls to elect a regional government which could see a referendum on its independence artie's enter fall mahasen details. there's a wind of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially our spare independence is something people here have long felt in their hearts but now

they're feeling it in their pockets. i think it's a good idea to be in the band them for our. country. in a really really bad situation it's a bargain for. it's a bargain for the good they're good for the cattle and flags can be seen hanging from balconies throughout barcelona reflecting a growing desire for home rule under a drive to break away from the central government in madrid this weekend's local election is being fought on that issue alone cattle and president mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign this convergence union party vying to hold an independent referendum if they win and say a free catalonia would be a cure all for the region's economic problems that have seen unemployment top twenty five percent the economic context in europe and in the south of europe has

been a catalyzer of this. movement we can see in the sense that people believe that with our own resources human capital economic resources we could be better off not being in the spanish estate and this is a reality that a lot of economic research has show many catalans find it a persuasive argument it's one of spain's wealthiest regions producing a fifth of the country's economic output but it pays around sixteen billion euros a year more in taxes than it gets back in madrid which has in turn insisted public services into austerity cuts. this is not fair i mean we are the ones who. you are . doing our best in mccormick reasons we cannot have all the weight of this measure and the central government that for us is the one who is spending the most and not in the best way last september barcelona witnessed one of the largest

separatist rallies here since the nineteen seventies over one and a half million catalans took to the streets to call for independence but the path to becoming a new european state is far from smooth the proposed referendum is against the spanish constitution what's more withdrawing from spain could also force this region to draw back to the european union those against separatism believe it could do more harm than good. separatism for catalonia would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in barcelona for access to the spanish work it being in the e.u. that would be lost which more even of separatism does not happen just talking about it creates uncertainty and that is the last thing the economy needs during this current crisis. with poll suggesting aftermath will win reelection barcelona and madrid looks set free showdown the president of the spanish military association colonel leopoldo sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war

political parties dismiss that as extreme rhetoric but the remaining cattle lands in hope this weekend will mark the first step towards the break up of spain. andrew farmer r.t. catalonia. it's russians are spread throughout the gulf world and it's not political strife at this time that says a mysterious disappearance three virus claims more lives in qatar and saudi arabia raising concerns of the food may turn into an epidemic we're reporting that online . plus they get is actually two thousand and six for christians around the world that's according to the pope himself as the things he's found a miscalculation by several years the birth of christ and the christian calendar more details are waiting for you on our website. and now let's take a look at some other stories making the news this hour police in thailand have used tear gas at the first a major antigovernment protests against prime minister jean like shinawatra

a sixteen month old government around ten thousand have poured into the streets while a group of demonstrators where tear gas to when they try to break through a police bury kid the protesters accuse the prime minister of an empty morning stuns and corruption the government does on high alert and says it could call an army support if the situation gets out of control. a bomb explosion in pakistan has killed at least seventy people including children and wounded dozens of others the blast to play soldiering a muslim procession in the city which is a stronghold of sunni militant groups the mobile phone service in the area has been temporarily cut as such attacks often triggered by handsets the tension between sunni and shia groups is especially high at present with a major muslim holiday this week. at least eighteen people have been killed in a gas explosion in southwestern china many of the workers in ways you province the

mine are now trapped underground with rescuers trying to reach them such incidents in the industry remain common in the country with almost two thousand miners killed last year alone. multiculturalism is on the rise in norway with many muslims among those contributing to a rep it grows in population in the scandinavian country but as maria for national reports radical elements in the expanding islamic community is of increasing concern for locals. tolerance is no is well known trademark maybe even to well known thirteen percent of the country's five million population in remembrance but it seems it may be suffering from its own hospitality rylan to sixty years since i was like. it was because they stopped to see the start of the space immigrant community population for years has been home to a large number of outsiders who believe in it is how many was treated. so besides

it's not enough a while ago a radical islamic group demanded to make its independence from the city and the sharia law territory to feel literally. in a letter sent to some of the country's politicians and journalists and known extremists have threatened to carry out and nine eleven in no way if their demands are not met. something really gets. to be taken seriously but this is not the first death threat coming from noways muslim community in this media a pakistani born in mom preaches those not praying should be brought to prison for those not fasting during ramadan decapitated it isn't possible to kill him in the river yeah no problem all weapon is made to kill we hear concerns over how some immigrants bring part of their cultures to norway from the head of the country's hunting union. our or something courses there were pending for

muslims. to have more interest in weapons in nature and helping attending courses is one of the two legal ways and no way to get a personal weapons license if you don't respect the ridge of rules and you want to live. in norway and then you can go back to your country opposition party member he himself came to know we as a. tacl refugee in the late eighty's he says the ruling labor party is importing voters immigrants are indeed among the parties strongest supporters but the prize is high how can you integrate minority who are in the minority actually the majority in a society who is going to learn from. such rhetoric is too familiar to every norwegian the homegrown terrorist killed seventy seven here last summer protesting against the takeover of muslim immigrants also one towards one of

those on that island last july his comrades and friends were killed right in front of his very eyes he says he survived to fight for what brave it tried to destroy the most important lesson is that we've never paid. for ground. it's a fight the fight for democracy or. justice it's something that we need to focus on despite concerns of the threat to kill made by some immigrants may be a real noways unlikely to give up its tolerant small toe in fact it's quite the opposite for many the only response to brave immigrants motivated massacre is seen immigrants embraced more than ever before. r t no way. that turkey dinners had barely been digested this week before most americans train their attention from fang's giving to buying black friday has become one of the

country's biggest shopping days of the year and arches new york resident has been to see what people actually think of the retailing hysteria. the holidays has arrived in the united states but instead of talking about family and religion americans seem only to be talking about shopping why is that this week let's talk about that do you think that americans are aware of the irony of having a crazy frenzied shopping day the day after we give thanks for what we already have best day of the year which one thanksgiving or black friday the day after black friday exactly you love it yeah it's a great time of year to go shopping and trample people. the world's ending anyway twenty. calendar so we don't have to worry about fixing our consumerism we don't have to worry about shopping nothing do you think it's an american thing or do you think it's a worldwide thing. i think americans are probably worse saturday do you think

americans are a little too obsessed with shopping for the holidays no i think it's great it's wonderful fun to get out but it's spending money and stuff you don't necessarily mean that's how the holidays are about what's makes the economy go round is that the most important thing you know we're hearing from a scrape are people obsessed with shopping where you're from well yes because we know the whole reason why we come here so we can show so we are obsessed and we count wife it's mara what does it say about us as a society it's humanity that we're so obsessed with consumerism. i think it's very pretty sad why do you think americans are so crazy about shopping during the holidays. no idea media you guys. tell everyone to buy spectacular and so they do with an economy in the tank a climate in shift and a world at war it might behoove us off to focus less on consuming and more on what's really important this holiday season.

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what i'm abeam are now if you watch my show on wednesday and you saw me respond to an article written on alger miner dot com just yesterday another article was written by the same lacan out of your foreign titled russia today continues its anti israel propaganda going even further than arab t.v. the article states that my comments range from wild exaggerations to outright falsehoods and instead of continuing with as he said she said battle of words let's not forget that this website parent company is invested in the israeli government and as i mentioned before the spokesperson for the israeli prime minister wrote r t a letter admonishing the coverage of this network and provided during the conflict sort of cleared up i went straight to the source stay tuned to hear the exclusive interview i just did with alex the spokesperson for the israeli prime minister netanyahu next. another block that we're

going to do the job or she's going to be like i'm drunk. after a bus bombing left fifteen wounded in tel aviv israel and wednesday a fragile cease fire remains intact between the israeli military and armed groups in the gaza strip all of this following one of the most violent conflicts seen in the region and nearly four years so how solid is the ceasefire and has israel's aggressive response to rockets fired from gaza then justifiable well earlier i got the chance to speak to alex the spokes person of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now i apologize in advance for the cutaways but we had to compensate for a long delays in the satellite feed i first asked alex if we can expect another act of aggression in four years since these escalation seemed to happen around the time of israel's elections here's his response.